I recently opened my own press-on nail shop, and while I was hunting for deals on supplies, I ended up being pulled into the gamified, heavily discounted world of Temu.…
In October 2022, I entered a contest hosted by a company called Talenthouse in partnership with Peacock. It was a cosplay contest asking cosplayers to submit photos of themselves as…
I promised myself that I would ease into 2023 by using January to reflect on my goals while being gentle with myself. I'm pleased to say this was a great…
Image of cosplayers from BLERDFEST! 2019 In 2019, BLERDFEST!! hit the convention scene of New Orleans, Louisiana as a new and inclusive event that focused on the intersection of Blackness…
2022 was... a lot. I experienced so many highs and lows at breakneck speeds that I'm surprised to have made it out of the year alive without severe whiplash injuries.…
Me and the AI art makeup look I created using the StarryAI app As the title suggests I don’t hate AI art tools. I don't automatically hate all AI-generated art…
I realized I've been thinking a lot about other people's money...and that it's really none of my business. The issue of crowdfunding in cosplay has come up a lot…
Hey, peeps. Sooo, I'm excited because it worked! I had an old cheap wig from when I was going to cosplay Armin (never got farther than a mildly embarassing but…
Cosplay is mostly fun and games for me, but I'd be a fool to deny that things can get often get unnecessarily competitive, whether I like it or not. Add…
Do y'all feel like, as black people, you have to automatically and blindly support other black people based solely on your shared status as, you know, black people? In the…